Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from. SESP's new well, safe drinking water is carried through Brazilian-made pipes to faucets spotted across the town. There are SESP-built privies behind the houses. DDT has even made it possible to sleep without a mosquito net...
...stinging service. For a moment or two, the crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...
...came") and the violently accurate volley that had deserted him all season, and won 6-3. In the second set, he lapsed into his old erratic play, lost 4-6 to Quist's heady tennis. In the third game of the third set, Quist moved in to the net, won a brilliant volley, but ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd's applause turned to "Aah" (Forest Hills for booing) at the umpire's ruling: Quist had forfeited the point by touching the net. After that, Quist fell apart, watched flat-footed as Schroeder...
...diverse companies Hanna last year rolled up a $7.2 million net, 40% more than 1946's $5.6 million. This year the company is earning at a rate of $7.8 million...
...When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across the net, in an even tone...